IRONIC
ALANIS MORISSETTE
SONGWRITERS: ALANIS MORISSETTE & GLEN BALLARD
COUNTRY: CANADA
ALBUM: JAGGED LITTLE PILL
LABEL: MAVERICK RECORDS
GENRE: ALTERNATIVE ROCK
YEAR: 1996
Alanis Nadine Morissette (/əˈlɑːnɪsˌmɒrɪˈsɛt/ə-LAH-niss MORR-ih-SET;
born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, musician, and
actress. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice, Morissette began her career in Canada in the early 1990s with
two mildly successful dance-pop albums. Afterward,
as part of a recording deal, she moved to Holmby Hills,
Los Angeles. In 1995, she released Jagged Little Pill,
a more rock-oriented album which sold more than 33 million copies globally and
is her most critically acclaimed work to date. This was made into a rock musical of the same name in 2017, which earned 15 Tony Award nominations including Best Musical.
Her more experimental follow-up album, electronic-infused Supposed
Former Infatuation Junkie, was released in 1998.
Morissette assumed creative control and
producing duties for her subsequent studio albums, including Under Rug Swept(2002), So-Called Chaos(2004), Flavors of
Entanglement(2008), and Havoc and
Bright Lights(2012). Her ninth album, Such Pretty
Forks in the Road, was released in 2020.
Morissette has sold more than 75 million records worldwide and has been dubbed
the "Queen of Alt-Rock Angst"
by Rolling Stone.
"Ironic" is a song by Canadian
singer Alanis Morissette. It was
released in February 1996 as the third single from her third studio album, Jagged Little Pill(1995).
It was written by Morissette and Glen Ballard,
and was produced by him. "Ironic" is a song written in the key of B major, and
includes a moderate tempo of eighty-five beats per minute. The lyrics present
several situations that are described as "ironic"; this has led to
debate as to whether any of these actually match the accepted meaning of irony.
For six weeks, the track topped the Canadian RPM Top Singles
chart. It
also reached the top five in Australia, New Zealand, and Norway. In
the United States, the song reached number four on April 13, 1996, and since
then it has been her highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100.
"Ironic" was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA).
The song won the Juno Award for Single of the
Year, and received two Grammy Award nominations in 1997,
for Record of the
Year and Best Short Form Music Video.
French diretor Stéphane Sednaoui filmed the music video. In it, Morissette drives through a winter
landscape, and she plays multiple roles as
her passengers. MTV nominated the music video for six MTV Video
Music Awards in 1996,
winning three of them. The music video was listed on VH1's "Greatest Music
Videos" list and was parodied by DBA Flip, Allison Rheaume, Rusty and "Weird
Al" Yankovic.
In September 2001, following the September 11
attacks, "Ironic" was listed inappropriate
due to its lyrics by American mass media
company Clear Channel
Communications. The song was included on the set list of
Morissette's Jagged Little Pill World Tour (1995), and her compilation albums MTV Unplugged(1999), The Collection(2005),
among others. The song was covered by Mexican duet Jesse & Joy for their album Esta Es Mi Vida Sesiones(2007),
and by American band Four Year Strong for their cover album Explains It All(2009).
An old man turned
ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
Isn't it ironic, don't you think?
It's like rain on
your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
And who would've thought, it figures
Mr. Play It Safe was
afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good-bye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
Well, isn't this nice
And isn't it ironic, don't you think?
It's like rain on
your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
And who would've thought, it figures
Well life has a funny
way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up in your face
A traffic jam when
you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic, don't you think?
A little too ironic, and, yeah, I really do think
It's like rain on
your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
And who would've thought, It figures
Well life has a funny
way of sneaking up on you
And life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out.
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